Tony P. Hall

Tony Patrick Hall (16 January 1942-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-OH 3) from 3 January 1979 to 9 September 2002 (succeeding Charles W. Whalen Jr. and preceding Mike Turner).

Biography
Tony Patrick Hall was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1942, the son of the Republican mayor Dave Hall. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand from 1966 to 1967, and he worked as a real estate agent before serving in the State House from 1969 to 1973 and in the State Senate from 1973 to 1979 as a Democrat. In 1978, he was elected to the first of many terms in the US House of Representatives. During the 1980s, Hall converted to evangelical Christianity and became pro-life, but his voting record was otherwise decidedly liberal, introducing legislation which would have apologized for slavery in the United States. He served as a delegate to the 2000 Democratic National Convention, and, from 2002 to 2006, he served as President George W. Bush's Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, taking over from George McGovern.